Radio-Frequency Digital-to-Analog Converters

With the proliferation of wireless networks, there is a need for more compact, low-cost, power efficient transmitters that are capable of supporting the various communication standards, including Bluetooth, WLAN, GSM/EDGE, WCDMA and 4G of 3GPP cellular.

This book describes a novel idea of RF digital-to-analog converters (RFDAC) and demonstrates how they can realize all-digital, fully-integrated RF transmitters that support all the current multi-mode and multi-band communication standards.

With this book the reader will:

• Understand the challenges of realizing a universal CMOS RF transmitter
• Recognize the design issues and the advantages and disadvantages related to analog and digital transmitter architectures
• Master designing an RF transmitter from system level modeling techniques down to circuitdesigns and their related layout know-hows
• Grasp digital polar and I/Q calibration techniques as well as the digital predistortion approaches
• Learn how to generate appropriate digital I/Q baseband signals in order to apply them to the test chip and measure the RF-DAC performance.